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Sources: ESPN has removed its paywall on most written content, after requiring an ESPN subscription for previously free articles on its site starting in 2020 (Ben Koo/Awful Announcing)
https://awfulannouncing.com/espn/espn-paywall-written-content-done.html…

Rejoice! ESPN has eliminated its paywall on written content
In 2020, ESPN enacted a paywall for written articles on its website. ESPN has now removed that paywall with ESPN+ winding down

This piece was written by a UK blogger, Carolyn Gallaher is an excellent read.
It was written back in February about the pardons of all the J6 criminals and others associated with the militia movement. 
“Trump’s pardons suggest he will run a far-right government with paramilitary backing.”
https://

Finally Friday Reads: No Kings!
Good Day, Sky Dancers! Last week was a tough one for those of us committed to keeping a working democracy in this country and with those who have been long-standing allies. We’ve watched the …

Btw. about 6 months ago the Anthropic CEO said that by now 50% of all code would be written by LLMs.
How does that prediction relate to the reality we all live in and what does that say about his ability to make predictions about the future?
(https://www.businessinsider.com/ant…

Anthropic CEO: AI will be writing 90% of code in 3 to 6 months
"And then in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code," Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said.

It's like a cinnamon stick, but spicier!

The ultimate answer to the flag mafia.was written in 1878
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kiLApX8FbQ

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

I've written a brief -- and very preliminary -- note on what I've learned playing with #Friendica so far.
https://www.journeyman.cc/blog/posts-outpu…

Initial thoughts on Friendica
If you've been browsing through your Mastodon feed, and you come upon a post with nice formatting — perhaps words emboldened or italicised, perhaps with an embedded link — and you've wondered how that post was written, the answer may be Friendica.

When the history is written of this benighted era, the spineless shamelessness of Columbia University will earn a special dishonorable mention.
White House Seeks Payments From Other Universities—Including Harvard—After Columbia Deal Sets Precedent
https://archive.ph/O8yW0

With some more effort, we pwoudly pwesent:
Another demo, this time on mainline Linux.
It's written in Rust and run over cpu as usual.
🥳✨🦀🏳️‍🌈👩‍💻
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a4yfLwXl_7o
P.S.: This awesome music is CC licensed.
Details are in the video descrip…

First session of a new campaign and @… painted my HeroForge mini exactly correctly.
Meet Ned Gnoughuioche, first level lawful good cleric and all-around swell guy. He just wants to make sure you’re safe and have a hot tea.

#OTD 2014: spending the night at the #Bauhaus in Dessau

To keep some lightness and play going while working on a book manuscript, I’ve been having some summery fun in Darien Gee’s paint chip micro prose workshop.
https://salrandolph.substack.com/p/color-oracles

Color Oracles
Micro-prose written by using paint chips as oracle cards in a workshop by Darien Gee.

Apparently the in past they predicted that information would be transmitted through a series of tubes

Fun things to play on bass that aren't really basslines: _Clockwork_ from Castlevania 3. Had to get this written down so I could figure it out but it's friggin' blast...still working on speed though.
#bass #castlevania

Someone in the local Facebook group has posted an AI-generated image of Ozzy Osbourne, Hulk Hogan and Malcolm-Jamal Warner at the gates of heaven.
They've written "I will never forget horrible July 2025
Rest in peace 💙💙💙"
It has 171 Likes so far.
Boomers sure do love the AI slop.
And the idea that if there is a Heaven, Hogan would be going there.

As I'm learning Dutch, I'm reminded that the idea that there are people who believe that the bible is to be taken literally. The idea that a several hundred year old translation of a collection of texts in multiple languages, that were themselves translated multiple times between languages, before the whole thing was translated to Latin, then being translated to English, could somehow perfectly reflect the original text... Yeah, it's only possible to believe that if you have no idea how languages work and have never learned another language.
Like, just from linguistic drift alone if the bible were written in King James English you're losing *so* much context. But Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek translated to Latin, then to English, then to English again?
There are so many things that erg can't be translated, even as a beginner. Dutch and English are two of the closest languages that exist, they're both Germanic languages and they're the closest to each other (other than Friesian). You can't really be much closer, and yet, there are so many things you can't mutually represent. Hebrew and Latin, Aramaic and Latin, Latin and English, Greek and English, these aren't even the same families at all... They're extremely distant. There's absolutely no way to represent concepts from one to another without another book's worth of explanation.
And that ignores all the cultural context, which is mostly lost and a library and decade of education to get the stuff that we *do* know.
Only monolingual Americans could come up with an idea so incredibly asinine.

"Writing is one of the most disruptive technologies ever invented after agriculture. Before writing, people could pass information in the current moment, to those who were close enough to hear noises made by other people. Writing allows people to communicate across space, passing written information to readers without the physical presence of the author. And it allows them to communicate across time, leaving evidence of thoughts long after the thinker had died."

A little bit of Korea in Buenos Aires.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Audioasis
Summer Babes:
🎵 Sunshine/Pretty Girls (Written by the Unnatural Helpers)
#SummerBabes
https://summerbabes.bandcamp.com/track/sunshine-pretty-girls-written-by-the-unnatural-helpers

Factual Inconsistencies in Multilingual Wikipedia Tables
Silvia Cappa, Lingxiao Kong, Pille-Riin Peet, Fanfu Wei, Yuchen Zhou, Jan-Christoph Kalo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18406

Factual Inconsistencies in Multilingual Wikipedia Tables
Wikipedia serves as a globally accessible knowledge source with content in over 300 languages. Despite covering the same topics, the different versions of Wikipedia are written and updated independently. This leads to factual inconsistencies that can impact the neutrality and reliability of the encyclopedia and AI systems, which often rely on Wikipedia as a main training source. This study investigates cross-lingual inconsistencies in Wikipedia's structured content, with a focus on tabular data…

Automated Formal Verification of a Software Fault Isolation System
Matthew Sotoudeh, Zachary Yedidia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15898 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

Automated Formal Verification of a Software Fault Isolation System
Software fault isolation (SFI) is a popular way to sandbox untrusted software. A key component of SFI is the verifier that checks the untrusted code is written in a subset of the machine language that guarantees it never reads or writes outside of a region of memory dedicated to the sandbox. Soundness bugs in the SFI verifier would break the SFI security model and allow the supposedly sandboxed code to read protected memory. In this paper, we address the concern of SFI verifier bugs by performi…

Going through my feeds this morning, I see a bunch of suspicious, poorly written English reports in Middle Eastern publications that have never shown up on my radar screen before that tell of cyberattacks by variously named Iranian-related "hacktivist" groups.

Upper Chromatic Numbers: An Update
Aaron Abrams
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19126 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.19126

Upper Chromatic Numbers: An Update
This is a survey written in 2000 about upper chromatic numbers

Oh lordy, what a timeline.

Effective bounds for polynomial systems defined over the rationals
Teresa Krick
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18144 https://arxiv.org/pd…

Effective bounds for polynomial systems defined over the rationals
This survey paper was primarily written as as the support for a course pesented at the JNCF2025: it aims to present some material that illustrates the kind of estimates one can obtain in effective algebraic geometry, for affine polynomial equation systems defined over the rational numbers Q, and focuses on the case of finite varieties.

I've always written short blog posts but now I'm doing a whole lot of post updates (the many syntax highlight plugins over the years eventually caught up with me), it's even more striking that there's content in a format that you rarely see these days (although yes I do read Seth Godin). 208 words in this post, I should try to go back to writing like this even if "the algorithm" doesn't like it :)

Liberals often struggle against these populist narratives because the polar opposite of populism is elitism, which carries much less appeal. Here are some of the narratives that work to create the software of autocracy.
— The Folksy Outsider. Pushing against the boundaries of written and unwritten norms is a standard performative element in the populist toolbox, establishing the populist leader as a folksy outsider disrespected by liberal elites.
We can expect Trump to continue …

Wired and Business Insider remove articles by journalist Margaux Blanchard that appear to be AI-generated and feature people who do not seem to exist (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Wired and Business Insider remove 'AI-written' freelance articles
Wired and Business Insider have removed freelance articles over concerns they were written by AI under a fake name.

@… @… I am so glad I’ve never had to deal with this.
I have written a Jira plugin, though, and just going near their Java APIs was enough.
(I eventually threw it away and wrote a JavaScript bookmarklet that just reformatted the …

I’m not a professional coder, I just write code when I need it written.
Even I know that the most dangerous point in the evolution of a program is the point when it runs without obvious errors. https://m.phase.org/@parsingphase/115072135180061094

Jet-mode Feedback in NGC 5972 - Insights from Resolved MUSE, GMRT, and VLA Observations: #Voorwerp Galaxy: https://aasnova.org/2025/07/18/written-in-the-gas-jet-feedback-in-a-voorwerp-galaxy/

No tracking across the web. No surveillance. No selling your data. That's it—that's the privacy policy.
"I fly with Gander. Because ragebait isn’t very Canadian."
#Gander Social Inc

Exact closure for discrete large-eddy simulation
Syver D{\o}ving Agdestein, Roel Verstappen, Benjamin Sanderse
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17051 https://arx…

Exact closure for discrete large-eddy simulation
In this article we propose new discretization-consistent expressions for the sub-filter stress (SFS) tensor in discrete LES, where the filter is induced by the discretization. We introduce a new two-grid filter that allows us to exactly compute the SFS tensor when DNS data is available. This new filter satisfies a "filter-swap" property, such that filtering and finite differencing can be interchanged and the resulting commutator expressions are of structural form (they can be written as the dis…

I can't believe how buggy Sequoia is. Spotlight isn't working - and look at this goddamn mess of a menu in the user guide 😮
I should have stayed with Sonoma.

I'm still weirdly surprised and delighted when I see myself referred to by my name, even though it happens fairly often now. Can't wait for when it's spoken rather than written online.

scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 25417 nodes and 216738 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

What makes an entity salient in discourse?
Amir Zeldes, Jessica Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16464 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.16464

What makes an entity salient in discourse?
Entities in discourse vary broadly in salience: main participants, objects and locations are noticeable and memorable, while tangential ones are less important and quickly forgotten, raising questions about how humans signal and infer relative salience. Using a graded operationalization of salience based on summary-worthiness in multiple summaries of a discourse, this paper explores data from 24 spoken and written genres of English to extract a multifactorial complex of overt and implicit lingu…

I randomly bought this book in a quirky bookshop in Copenhagen for the sole reason that it said all the wrong things right on the cover.
(Sales: the single most important profession. NLP™: not natural language processing but neuro-linguistic programming. Meta: the Meta Model™ and Meta Publications™.)
I just started reading it and boy oh boy, I was not disappointed. It's outrageously hilarious.
"Persuasion engineering".

Persuasion engineering by Richard Bandler | Open Library
Persuasion engineering by Richard Bandler, unknown edition,

Aside: The Mastodon release notes have clear and easy to follow upgrade steps, yay!
Now, perhaps written downgrade steps would be in order as well.

Here is the whole spoof piece, written after I went to the Coliseum to see a revival of Jonathan Miller’s 1986 production of the Mikado. It was originally posted on my blog in 2008: https://www.dcscience.net/2008/02/23/theyll-none-of-em-be-missed/

sometimes I think about how I rewrote an internal tool to be 100x faster and some of my coworkers didn't trust it because it took less than 5 seconds to complete what used to feel much weightier
honestly I don't think I would have trusted it at first had I not written it myself
brains are weird

Putin offers Trump frozen battle lines, written promise not to invade again if Kyiv surrenders Donbas, NYT reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/putin-offers-trump-frozen-battle.html

aaaaaaaaaa! There it is!
My friend @…’s brand new typeface Tausend is out. So, so good … 😍
https://fontwerk.com/de/fonts/tausend-collection…

I hate it when I get a great idea for how to rewrite a library I've already written, but way better.
#PHP #Programming

from my link log —
Optimizing programs written in Guile Scheme.
https://dthompson.us/posts/optimizing-guile-scheme.html
saved 2025-05-02

Beautifully-written parable:
#LLMs #SoCalledAI

AcceleratedKernels.jl: Cross-Architecture Parallel Algorithms from a Unified, Transpiled Codebase
Andrei-Leonard Nicusan, Dominik Werner, Simon Branford, Simon Hartley, Andrew J. Morris, Kit Windows-Yule
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16710

AcceleratedKernels.jl: Cross-Architecture Parallel Algorithms from a Unified, Transpiled Codebase
AcceleratedKernels.jl is introduced as a backend-agnostic library for parallel computing in Julia, natively targeting NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, and Apple accelerators via a unique transpilation architecture. Written in a unified, compact codebase, it enables productive parallel programming with minimised implementation and usage complexities. Benchmarks of arithmetic-heavy kernels show performance on par with C and OpenMP-multithreaded CPU implementations, with Julia sometimes offering more consisten…

written at the apartment's marble dining table

The Trump administration said Thursday it is reviewing more than
55 million people who have valid U.S. visas for any violations that could lead to deportation,
part of a growing crackdown on foreigners who are permitted to be in the United States.
In a written answer to a question from The Associated Press, the State Department said
all U.S. visa holders, which can include tourists from many countries,
are subject to “continuous vetting,”
with an eye towar…

Trump administration ramps up crackdown on US visa holders
The Trump administration says it’s reviewing more than 55 million foreigners who have valid U.S. visas for any violations that could lead to deportation. In a written answer to a question from The Associated Press, the State Department said all U.S. visa holders are subject to “continuous vetting.” It says it has an eye toward any indication that they could be ineligible for permission to enter or stay in the United States. The State Department’s new language suggests that the continual…

I don’t understand why we must spend billions of dollars and waste so much water for AI.
I just created an “AI-generated image” from the original using a few dabs of the retouch tool in the Photos app.
Might have taken a sip of water afterwards but that was it.
(Is there a word/phrase for taking a regular image and making it look like it was AI generated? There should be.)

https://github.com/web-infra-dev/rslint
... written in Go and crabs everywhere ...
this is so weird lol

GitHub - web-infra-dev/rslint: 🚀 Go Faster. Go Typed
🚀 Go Faster. Go Typed. Contribute to web-infra-dev/rslint development by creating an account on GitHub.

Preprint: Did I Just Browse A Website Written by LLMs?
Sichang "Steven" He, Ramesh Govindan, Harsha V. Madhyastha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13933

Preprint: Did I Just Browse A Website Written by LLMs?
Increasingly, web content is automatically generated by large language models (LLMs) with little human input. We call this "LLM-dominant" content. Since LLMs plagiarize and hallucinate, LLM-dominant content can be unreliable and unethical. Yet, websites rarely disclose such content, and human readers struggle to distinguish it. Thus, we must develop reliable detectors for LLM-dominant content. However, state-of-the-art LLM detectors are insufficient, because they perform well mainly on clean, p…

Microsoft Research is at it again:
Advait Sarkar, a Microsoft Research employee got a paper published at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in computing systems:
"AI Could Have Written This: Birth of a Classist Slur in Knowledge Work"
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3706599

Here is a poll about #GenAI since that's all we're talking about at the moment:
Do you believe that you can detect AI-generated text?
If so, what are your tips to detect it? I found this article which has a few suggestions :

5 Easy Ways To Tell If Written Content Came From Generative AI
Spread of generative AI content online since ChatGPT 3.5 launched in November 2022 is up 8,362%. Here's how to tell if content was written by an AI bot or not.

Classification errors distort findings in automated speech processing: examples and solutions from child-development research
Lucas Gautheron, Evan Kidd, Anton Malko, Marvin Lavechin, Alejandrina Cristia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15637

Classification errors distort findings in automated speech processing: examples and solutions from child-development research
With the advent of wearable recorders, scientists are increasingly turning to automated methods of analysis of audio and video data in order to measure children's experience, behavior, and outcomes, with a sizable literature employing long-form audio-recordings to study language acquisition. While numerous articles report on the accuracy and reliability of the most popular automated classifiers, less has been written on the downstream effects of classification errors on measurements and statist…

Me: I wonder if anyone has written Arduino code using the tone command for a bunch of common songs...
Internet: #arduino

GitHub - robsoncouto/arduino-songs
Contribute to robsoncouto/arduino-songs development by creating an account on GitHub.

Small thing I noticed today: splitting `.mkv` files using `ffmpeg` via the `-ss` and `-t` options works great, but the resulting `.mkv` file contains the wrong number of frames in the metadata. Evidently the total frames from the source file gets written into the metadata instead of the resulting frames post-splitting which is annoying. Not a deal breaker, but kind of annoying...easy to fix with a quick run through `mkvmerge` but still just weird.

A General Framework for Linking Free and Forced Fluctuations via Koopmanism
Valerio Lucarini, Manuel Santos Gutierrez, John Moroney, Niccol\`o Zagli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16446

A General Framework for Linking Free and Forced Fluctuations via Koopmanism
The link between forced and free fluctuations for nonequilibrium systems can be described via a generalized version of the celebrated fluctuation-dissipation theorem. The use of the formalism of the Koopman operator makes it possible to deliver an intepretable form of the response operators written as a sum of exponentially decaying terms, each associated one-to-one with a mode of natural variability of the system. Here we showcase on a stochastically forced version of the celebrated Lorenz '63…

A Novel Mutation Based Method for Detecting FPGA Logic Synthesis Tool Bugs
Yi Zhang, He Jiang, Xiaochen Li, Shikai Guo, Peiyu Zou, Zun Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15536 http…

A Novel Mutation Based Method for Detecting FPGA Logic Synthesis Tool Bugs
FPGA (Field-Programmable Gate Array) logic synthesis tools are key components in the EDA (Electronic Design Automation) toolchain. They convert hardware designs written in description languages such as Verilog into gate-level representations for FPGAs. However, defects in these tools may lead to unexpected behaviors and pose security risks. Therefore, it is crucial to harden these tools through testing. Although several methods have been proposed to automatically test FPGA logic synthesis tools…

"Meanwhile [various] projects, are co-constructed, won or lost, implemented and written about using cloaked expressions and degrowth-like terminology.
"But the fear of openly speaking about justice, survival and revolution, the fear of being the first fool to shout ‘the emperor has no clothes’, keeps finely hairstyled Europeans in social positions, jobs – sometimes even offices of authority – and sense of self-worth."

Stories of expanded solidarity: the personal and the political in the degrowth perspective from the European periphery
by Mladen Domazet1 When Mark asked me to contribute to this series, there was an instruction to try to point to any good prospects for degrowth in this conjuncture, and a lingering implication to u…

Analytic Full Potential Adjoint Solution for Two-dimensional Subcritical Flows
Carlos Lozano, Jorge Ponsin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16886 https://…

Analytic Full Potential Adjoint Solution for Two-dimensional Subcritical Flows
We investigate the analytic adjoint solution of the two-dimensional (2D) full potential equation for subcritical flows for a cost function measuring aerodynamic force by the Green's function approach and by the connection of the adjoint full potential and compressible Euler equations. The solution for aerodynamic lift is written in terms of two unknown functions encoding the effect of perturbations to the Kutta condition. We analyze the properties of these functions from an analytic viewpoint a…

#CFP: Meeting at the Crossroads: Understanding the Intersection of Rhetoric, Race, and Religion
https://ift.tt/voLVyEU
Laurent Pernot wrote, “Religion is intimately linked with words. Everyone knows that the spoken…

#CFP: Meeting at the Crossroads: Understanding the Intersection of Rhetoric, Race, and Religion
Laurent Pernot wrote, “Religion is intimately linked with words. Everyone knows that the spoken and written word plays an essential role in religion, as language is necessarily used to address the gods or God, to speak about the divine or the sacred, and to express religious feeling or awareness”. Thus, Pernot called for an understanding of the role rhetoric plays in our expression and performance of religion.

Just spotted a random @… post on Imgur...
https://imgur.com/gallery/random-stolen-meme-dump-sunday-july-20-part-1-oWCgiWL#kyB6Kl…

Hypergeometric decomposition of Delsarte K3 pencils
Rachel Davis, Jessamyn Dukes, Eli Orvis, Thais Ribeiro, Adriana Salerno, Leah Sturman, Ursula Whitcher
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15049

Hypergeometric decomposition of Delsarte K3 pencils
We study five pencils of projective quartic Delsarte K3 surfaces. Over finite fields, we give explicit formulas for the point counts of each family, written in terms of hypergeometric sums. Over the complex numbers, we match the periods of the corresponding family with hypergeometric differential operators and series. We also obtain a decomposition of the $L$-function of each pencil in terms of hypergeometric $L$-series and Dedekind zeta functions. This gives an explicit description of the hype…

The future is here!
GitHub - ghuntley/cobol-emoji-rpn-calculator: A Emoji Reverse Polish Notation Calculator written in COBOL. https://github.com/ghuntley/cobol-emoji-rpn-calculator

On activists taking action against warplanes to prevent genocide:
https://www.developmenteducationreview.com/issue/issue-26/hammer-blow-how-ten-women-disarmed-warplane
I worked at BAe in Warton when this occurr…

Using an LLM to Investigate Students' Explanations on Conceptual Physics Questions
Sean Savage, N. Sanjay Rebello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14823 https://

Using an LLM to Investigate Students' Explanations on Conceptual Physics Questions
Analyzing students' written solutions to physics questions is a major area in PER. However, gauging student understanding in college courses is bottlenecked by large class sizes, which limits assessments to a multiple-choice (MC) format for ease of grading. Although sufficient in quantifying scientifically correct conceptions, MC assessments do not uncover students' deeper ways of understanding physics. Large language models (LLMs) offer a promising approach for assessing students' written resp…

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My Godot MCP server is now self-contained, and includes the pending additions that were contributed to the original Godot MCP.
https://github.com/xibbon/GodotSwiftMcp
This is what I am baking directly into Xogot, so I will be maintaining this server.

GitHub - xibbon/GodotSwiftMcp: Godot MCP server written in Swift
Godot MCP server written in Swift. Contribute to xibbon/GodotSwiftMcp development by creating an account on GitHub.

Watching the frustratingly fruitless fights over the USEFULNESS of LLM-based coding helpers, I've come down to 3 points that explain why ppl seem to live in different realities:
Most programmers:
1) Write inconsequential remixes of trivial code that has been written many times before.
2) Lack the taste for good design & suck at code review in general (yours truly included).
3) Lack the judgement to differentiate between 1) & FOSS repos of nontrivial code, …

For some, it seems, tenure means submitting articles for peer review a grad student would never admit to having written.

Another day of job interviews here at @… research group. Tea of the day: Watanabe Yutaka Midori Shincha 2024
#teaoftheday #greentea

@… @… I was actually surprised this piece wasn't written by Chase Carter

Les Juifs européens se joignent Š l'appel demandant le départ du « tsar de l'antisémitisme » de l'UE
https://euobserver.com/eu-and-the-world/ar980add78

So Michelle7 over on BlueSky has a “Questioning AI Resource List” (Google Doc) that they’re maintaining.
It’s well worth keeping an eye on.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DKpUUvKyH9Ql6_ubftYMiZloXizJU38YSjtP5i8MIx0/edit?tab=t.0…

Questioning AI Resource List
Excellent summary of major problems with companies’ focus on AI written by expert in machine learning: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you-if-you-mention-ai-again/ Another good summary piece that includes many examples (in general Ed Zitron’s work is a great resource): ...

Our new art handler, Doug Hollingsworth, is a real renaissance man. He's played in bands, written several novels and worked at both the Guggenheim and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Learn more about Doug in our latest blog post: https://georgiamuseum.org/gmoa_blog/do

Two Birds with One Stone: Multi-Task Detection and Attribution of LLM-Generated Text
Zixin Rao, Youssef Mohamed, Shang Liu, Zeyan Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14190 https://…

Two Birds with One Stone: Multi-Task Detection and Attribution of LLM-Generated Text
Large Language Models (LLMs), such as GPT-4 and Llama, have demonstrated remarkable abilities in generating natural language. However, they also pose security and integrity challenges. Existing countermeasures primarily focus on distinguishing AI-generated content from human-written text, with most solutions tailored for English. Meanwhile, authorship attribution--determining which specific LLM produced a given text--has received comparatively little attention despite its importance in forensic…

Memoirs of the CP/M creator released:
“Our father, Gary Kildall, was one of the founders of the personal computer industry, but you probably don’t know his name. Those who have heard of him may recall the myth that he ‘missed’ the opportunity to become Bill Gates by going flying instead of meeting with IBM. Unfortunately, this tall tale paints Gary as a ‘could-have-been,’ ignores his deep contributions, and overshadows his role as an inventor of key technologies that define how compute…

In His Own Words: Gary Kildall
Gary Kildall was a pioneer of personal computer software. He wrote programming language tools, including assemblers (Intel 4004), interpreters (BASIC), and compilers (PL/M). He created a widely-used disk operating system (CP/M). He and his wife, Dorothy McEwen, started a successful company called Digital Research to develop and market CP/M, which for years was the dominant operating system for personal microcomputers. Thousands of programs were written to run under it, and a million or more peo…

Let's use Hanlon's Razor, and assume good faith in that the #inaturalist staff just needs a bit of help for how one could actually share decision-making power with a large online community.
To do that, I've written up some ideas of how other online communities (in #citizenscience, #openscience and beyond) have gone about doing that.
https://tzovar.as/power-sharing/

1/ Something a bit unusual and fun: I read a travel book *after* returning from #Italy25. This is a book first written in 1913; I had the 1923 edition. It was tough going to read before I left, because (as the title suggests), it's really a tour guide of a book. #BookReview ↵

Thread emoji…
“Why I don’t trust WCAG 2.2 and what I’m hoping from 3.0”
https://blog.logrocket.com/ux-design/wcag-3-vs-2-ux/
This is a disappointing read because it fails to recognize *when* WCAG 2 was written and *how* consensus happens. It also assumes…

Why I don’t trust WCAG 2.2 and what I’m hoping from 3.0 - LogRocket Blog
You can follow WCAG 2.2 and still build inaccessible products. Here's what I want from WCAG 3.0.

Four outlets have taken down AI-generated articles by a "journalist"; Wired says her article didn't go through a proper fact-check or get sufficient editing (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Wired says 'AI-written' story did not have 'proper fact-check process'
Wired explains how it got duped by an AI freelancer while other editors who had been pitched by Margaux Blanchard share their stories.

Exploring the Theory and Practice of Concurrency in the Entity-Component-System Pattern
Patrick Redmond, Jonathan Castello, Jos\'e Manuel Calder\'on Trilla, Lindsey Kuper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15264

Exploring the Theory and Practice of Concurrency in the Entity-Component-System Pattern
The Entity-Component-System (ECS) software design pattern, long used in game development, encourages a clean separation of identity (entities), data properties (components), and computational behaviors (systems). Programs written using the ECS pattern are naturally concurrent, and the pattern offers modularity, flexibility, and performance benefits that have led to a proliferation of ECS frameworks. Nevertheless, the ECS pattern is little-known and not well understood outside of a few domains. …

physics_collab: Multilayer physicist collaborations (2015)
Two multiplex networks of coauthorships among the Pierre Auger Collaboration of physicists (2010-2012) and among researchers who have posted preprints on arXiv.org (all papers up to May 2014). Layers represent different categories of publication, and an edge's weight indicates the number of reports written by the authors. These layers are one-mode projections from the underlying author-paper bipartite network.
This n…

The Nobel Peace Prize’s long tradition of tarnished choices
https://archive.ph/CrVdj
While this op-ed was obviously prompted by discussion that Trump wants one, it could have been written any time in the past few decades.
One could draft a list of things that Very Serious People Take Very Seriously …

With increasing momentum, voices on the Christian right are preaching that EMPATHY has become a VICE.
For them, empathy is a cudgel for the left:
It can manipulate caring people into accepting all manner of sins according to a conservative Christian perspective, including abortion access, LGBTQ rights, illegal immigration and certain views on social and racial justice
“Empathy becomes toxic when it encourages you to affirm sin, validate lies or support destructive policie…

Conservative Christians argue empathy can lead to sin
Some voices on the Christian right are arguing the virtue of empathy has become a vice. Those Christians claim empathy can manipulate people into accepting what they see as sins, like abortion access and LGBTQ+ rights. Conservative evangelicals Allie Beth Stuckey and Joe Rigney have written books within the past year criticizing certain forms of empathy. Stuckey's and Rigney's views have gained traction among President Donald Trump’s Christian base as his Republican administration enacts hard…

When I do web dev, I don’t just work in the DOM, I put on a pencil moustache and work in the MANDOM.
Pat didn’t know it when he made the shirt, but it’s a guys’ web dev shirt: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/78574049-mandom
(Or a shifter smut lady book club tank, as it t…

Got the documentation for the dice parser software online and now I can close the laptop and relax a bit. I think it still needs some cleaning up, but it's good enough for now.
#python

I make the best #espresso drinks.

Idaho pastor Douglas Wilson can be provocative.
He once wrote that “slavery produced in the South a genuine affection between the races.”
He’s said that “sodomy” is worse than “slavery”;
abortion, he’s written, is “as great an evil as slavery” due to what he sees as its ability to spark a civil war.
He told me last year that he regards the American state as the “biggest blasphemer” of them all.
But beneath the provocations is a vision of a remade
— and Chri…

An Outspoken Christian Nationalist Pastor Expands His Sway In Trump’s DC
Idaho pastor Douglas Wilson can be provocative. He once wrote that “slavery...

scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 25417 nodes and 216738 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

Jules Witcover, the journalist known for his long-running syndicated column Politics Today co-written with his Baltimore Sun colleague Jack Germond, died at 98 (Bart Barnes/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/08/18/jules-witcover-dead/

Jules Witcover, political columnist who relished the horse race, dies at 98
He was one of the best-sourced political reporters of his generation, known for a long-running column he wrote with Baltimore Sun colleague Jack Germond.

Texas Democrats are tearing up “permission slips” they signed in order to leave the chamber,
joining state representative Nicole Collier ahead of Wednesday’s vote on the controversial Texas congressional redistricting maps.
The slips are part of new surveillance protocols set by Texas Republicans in the house chamber,
🆘 stating that Democrats would “be granted written permission to leave only after agreeing to be released into the custody of a designated [Texas department o…

scotus_majority: SCOTUS majority opinions
Network of legal citations among majority opinions written by the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), from 1754-2002 (2008 version) and 1792-2006 (2007 version). In addition to the citation network, node metadata is included giving some description of each opinion.
This network has 34613 nodes and 202167 edges.
Tags: Informational, Legal, Unweighted, Metadata, Temporal

Source identifiers are used to track your activity on a site:
Where you came from, what device you use, and even who you talk to.
Whether it's written clearly in the url or tied to a random string of characters, it's assigned to your activity.
When you send a link containing a source identifier to somebody and they click it, it signals to the website that you two are connected.
And that data goes right back to the website operators, and thus their advertisers…

Nikki Haley’s campaign manager warned influential donors Tuesday that the GOP would lose control of the U.S. House of Representatives
if Donald Trump is the party’s presidential nominee,
leaning into concerns about down-ballot races
as some anti-Trump Republicans view the fight over Congress as a better investment than the presidential race.

Haley camp seeks to convince top donors that Trump would cost GOP the House
The move marked the latest effort by a campaign many Republicans have written off to hit back against the overwhelming GOP favorite.